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What do you not handle with care?

What do you not handle with care?

Site-specific Installation (artist handbound books)
& Ongoing Performance
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​Goldsmiths College Library 
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​​I asked 100 individuals what do they not handle with care.
Each participant’s individual story is handbound into book by the artist,
and silently slotted in between books in a public library as little ‘care packages’.

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What sort of knowledge deserves to be 'public knowledge'? In a today’s culture with elevated levels of anxiety and mental distress, care work and wellness is often being undermined, or commoditized. There is a slow violence in forgetting about care, and I want to bring this care to the forefront, by exploring together with my participants how can care be a methodology, rather than an afterthought. 

"Each book is so fragile and light, like a body on its own - a self-portrait preserving a precious piece of personality. There's something so beautiful about honouring someone's story  by handbinding it into a  book, and then being encountered in an unexpected impersonal, and usually stressful place like the library." 

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  • ABOUT
    • Biography
  • ARCHIVE
    • Recent
    • Performances & Public Interventions >
      • Kopi & Myths
      • The Treehouse We Never Had
      • Bind
      • What do you not handle with care?
      • Ghost to Ourselves
      • Love Clinic
      • All The Things I Had To Say To You (Without You)
      • Untitled (Goodnight Stranger)
      • Is this seat taken?
      • Untitled (Grieving in New York City)
      • Shifting Concretes: Can We “Lepak” Better at Orchard Road?
      • Waiting For
      • 洗手 (Washing Hands)
      • This Is a Safe Place to Un-Nail Your Privilege
      • iStopped To Take This Photo (Oxford Street)
      • Fix-Aided
    • Interactive Installations >
      • Untitled (lost and maybe not always found)
      • Real-Doh: Fun with Apologies
      • Real-Doh Playroom
      • Real-Doh: Model Citizen
      • Real-Doh: Together, We Can Even This Out
      • 佳佳 Mama Shop
      • Fix-Aided
      • Tabula Rasa
      • Drafts (1)
    • Pre-2016 >
      • 佳佳 Mama Shop
      • Untitled (Objects) >
        • Untitled ($2)
        • Untitled (Possessions)
      • Untitled
      • The Last Meal
    • Collaborations >
      • Oceans*A*Part
      • Dumplings & Dialogue
      • Conversations in Singapore History' 18
      • And Everything In Between
      • The Little Things Book
      • Shifting Concretes: Can We “Lepak” Better at Orchard Road?
    • Paintings >
      • Watercolour
      • One-Way Ticket
      • Bare Skin
      • Old Flame
      • Mummy Can I Wash Your Hands
    • Illustrations >
      • The Little Things Book
    • Your Familiar Stranger
  • Press
  • Contact